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Boston Bullpen Project Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$389k
Granted FY2024still arriving
52
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$97k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Human Services$643kHousing & Shelter$312kHealth$225kEmployment$101kYouth Development$75kRecreation & Sports$44kEducation$39kCivil Rights$31kOther$0
02FY2024 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k41 grants · $122k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $169k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $97k
$3,507
Median grant
1
States reached
$207k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Social Equity Access Fund$97,479
Open Sky$32,263
Boston Health Care for the Homeless$26,618
Womenss Lunch Place$19,258
Foundation To Be Named Later$16,406
One Family$14,497
Boston Area Rape Crisis Center$13,546
BMC Immigrant and Refugee Health Center$12,537
Inner City Weightlifting$11,557
Brookline Center for Comm Mental Health$11,512
Office of Veteran Services$10,840
La Colaborativa$9,803
Womens Money Matters$9,372
Elders Living at Home$8,679
Boston Community Pediatrics$8,676
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $330k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Jeremiahs Inn: $2k → 11%Springfield Rescue Mission: $647 → 17%Housing Families Inc: $9k → 8%Boston Health Care for the Homeless: $29k → 16%Housing Families Inc: $6k → 8%Boston Health Care for the Homeless: $27k → 16%Housing Families Inc: $5k → 8%Boston Health Care for the Homeless: $25k → 16%Housing Families Inc: $4k → 8%Boston Health Care for the Homeless: $22k → 16%Housing Families Inc: $4k → 8%Housing Families Inc: $3k → 8%Housing Families Inc: $3k → 8%Boston Health Care for the Homeless: $12k → 16%Room to Grow: $6k → 16%Room to Grow: $5k → 16%Room to Grow: $5k → 16%Room to Grow: $4k → 16%Room to Grow: $3k → 16%Room to Grow: $3k → 16%Pine Street Inn: $3k → 16%Room to Grow: $3k → 16%Pine Street Inn: $2k → 16%Pine Street Inn: $2k → 16%Pine Street Inn: $1k → 16%La Colaborativa: $10k → 16%The Children's Room: $600 → 8%La Colaborativa: $6k → 16%Home for Little Wanderers: $1k → 16%La Colaborativa: $472 → 16%Home for Little Wanderers: $250 → 16%Christophers Haven: $580 → 16%Fathers Uplift: $6k → 16%Fathers Uplift: $5k → 16%Fathers Uplift: $3k → 16%Fathers Uplift: $1k → 16%Fathers Uplift: $800 → 16%Fathers Uplift: $257 → 16%Womens Money Matters: $9k → 16%Womens Money Matters: $5k → 16%Women's Money Matters: $3k → 16%Budget Buddies: $1k → 16%One Family: $29k → 16%One Family: $26k → 16%One Family: $14k → 16%One Family: $14k → 16%One Family: $3k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 56 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.

56 repeat relationships: 46 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
18

Total granted

$1.5M
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+35%

Still filing today

68%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $115k · revenue +54%
  • OF
    ONE FAMILY INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $88k · revenue +25%
  • WL
    WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $84k · revenue +221%

Funded once

  • HP
    HABITAT PLUS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +69%
  • JI
    JEREMIAH'S INN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +35%
  • PI
    Pay it Forward
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Project Hope Boston Inc

Project hope is a multi service agency that moves families up and out of poverty.project hope works in partnership with women and families in the dorchester and roxbury neighborhoods of boston on their journeys up and out of poverty. we do…

Human Services
2
Brookview House Inc

Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.

Human Services
3
Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership Inc D/B/a Metro Housing Boston

Metro housing boston mobilizes wide-ranging resources to provide innovative and personalized services that lead families and individuals to housing stability, economic security, and an improved quality of life.

Housing & Shelter
4
Pine Street Inn Housing Ii Inc

Pine street inn housing ii, inc. is a massachusetts not-for-profit corporation, which was organized to provide ten elderly individuals with housing facilities and services at the inn's menino house at geneva avenue in boston,…

Housing & Shelter
5
Familyaid Boston Inc

Familyaid boston empowers parents and caregivers facing homelessness to secure and sustain housing and build strong foundations for their children's futures.

—
6
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc

Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter
7
Lifestream Inc

Lifestream, inc. (the organization") provides community-based services that support individuals in attaining greater independence, promising opportunities, and lives that are meaningful and fulfilling on their own terms.

Health
8
Sojourner House Inc

Sojourner house is a shelter of hope for families;providing a circle of support and empowering them towards independence.

Housing & Shelter
9
Triangle Inc

Through support, challenge and opportunity, triangle empowers people with disabilities and their families to enjoy rich, fulfilling lives. we are committed to helping the world recognize that we are all people with ability.

—
10
Transition House Inc

Transition house is a human services agency dedicated to preventing and ending domestic violence. the agency provides a continuum of housing resources and holistic support for survivors of violence and their children, as well as prevention…

—
11
Bay Cove Human Services Inc

Bay cove human services' mission is to partner with people to overcome challenges and realize personal potential. bay cove pursues this mission by providing individualized and compassionate services to people facing the challenges…

—
12
Work Incorporated

It is the mission of work,inc. to ensure that all individuals with disabilities have the ability to grow, the right to make choices, access to education, and the opportunity to participate in community life via meaningful work.

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homestart Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Fish Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

54 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 54 of the 80 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/54
Grantees still filing
45/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Social Equity Access Fund: $168,753 · OtherSocial Equity Access FundOpen Sky: $113,402 · OtherOpen SkyWOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC: $84,021 · OtherWOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INCElders Living at Home: $49,885 · OtherElders Living at HomeJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC: $38,505 · OtherFranciscan Hospital: $36,321 · OtherMORE THAN WORDS INC: $33,613 · OtherPROJECT CITIZENSHIP INC: $31,415 · Other+38 more: $263,519 · Other+38 moreBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $115,239 · Human ServicesBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR T…ONE FAMILY INC: $87,884 · Human ServicesONE FAMILY INCHOUSING FAMILIES INC: $32,439 · Human ServicesHOUSING FAMILIES INCROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $29,825 · Human ServicesROOM TO GROW NATIONAL IN…WOMEN'S MONEY MATTERS INC: $19,229 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S MONEY MATTERS IN…LA COLABORATIVA INC: $16,709 · Human ServicesFATHERS UPLIFT INCORPORATED: $15,947 · Human Services+6 more: $12,738 · Human ServicesBOSTON AREA RAPE CRISIS CENTER INC: $52,606 · HealthBOSTON ARE…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $39,791 · HealthDana-Farbe…BOSTON COMMUNITY PEDIATRICS INC: $17,643 · HealthBOSTON COM…FENWAY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $16,202 · HealthFENWAY COM…BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC: $13,037 · HealthBRIDGE OVE…+1 more: $1,200 · HealthYEAR UP INC: $77,437 · EducationTHE WILY NETWORK: $8,000 · EducationWILDFLOWER INC: $3,325 · Education+2 more: $1,328 · EducationHomeStart Inc: $27,762 · Community ImprovementDUET INC: $18,444 · Community ImprovementCODMAN SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $2,144 · Community ImprovementJAMAICA PLAIN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $1,700 · Community ImprovementINNERCITY WEIGHTLIFTING INC: $42,155 · Recreation & SportsTHE BASEBALL INC: $4,044 · Recreation & SportsHEADING HOME INC: $20,532 · Housing & ShelterVIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS: $17,179 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY PROMISE METROWEST INC: $2,656 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $700 · Housing & Shelter
Other$819,434Human Services$330,010Health$140,479Education$90,090Community Improvement$50,050Recreation & Sports$46,199Housing & Shelter$41,067

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $115,239 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetONE FAMILY INC: $87,884 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetWOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC: $84,021 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetYEAR UP INC: $77,437 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON AREA RAPE CRISIS CENTER INC: $52,606 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetINNERCITY WEIGHTLIFTING INC: $42,155 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $39,791 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC: $38,505 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMORE THAN WORDS INC: $33,613 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHOUSING FAMILIES INC: $32,439 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT CITIZENSHIP INC: $31,415 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $29,825 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetHomeStart Inc: $27,762 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLOUIS D BROWN PEACE INSTITUTE CORP: $23,598 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBREAKTIME UNITED INC: $23,254 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHEADING HOME INC: $20,532 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S MONEY MATTERS INC: $19,229 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetDUET INC: $18,444 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBOSTON COMMUNITY PEDIATRICS INC: $17,643 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS: $17,179 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLA COLABORATIVA INC: $16,709 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFENWAY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $16,202 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFATHERS UPLIFT INCORPORATED: $15,947 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC: $13,037 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBridge Forward Inc: $10,871 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetTHE WILY NETWORK: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $7,937 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Haven Project Inc: $7,869 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC: $7,639 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FISH FAMILY FOUNDATION: $6,006 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BASEBALL INC: $4,044 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF WORCESTER: $3,365 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILDFLOWER INC: $3,325 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDISMAS HOUSE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $3,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE METROWEST INC: $2,656 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCODMAN SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $2,144 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBREAD OF LIFE INC: $1,815 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJAMAICA PLAIN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $1,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEREMIAH'S INN INC: $1,671 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $1,303 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPositive Action Against Chemical Addiction Inc: $1,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC: $1,028 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND INNOCENCE PROJECT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc: $934 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA Place To Turn Inc: $900 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEveryday Boston Inc: $878 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOSTON RESCUE MISSION INC: $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPRINGFIELD RESCUE MISSION: $647 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds ONE FAMILY INC ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON AREA RAPE CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds INNERCITY WEIGHTLIFTING INC ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds MORE THAN WORDS INC ↗
  • Who funds HOUSING FAMILIES INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT CITIZENSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds HomeStart Inc ↗
  • Who funds LOUIS D BROWN PEACE INSTITUTE CORP ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTIME UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds HEADING HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S MONEY MATTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds DUET INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON COMMUNITY PEDIATRICS INC ↗
  • Who funds VIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS ↗
  • Who funds LA COLABORATIVA INC ↗
  • Who funds FENWAY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds FATHERS UPLIFT INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC ↗
  • Who funds Bridge Forward Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE WILY NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
  • Who funds The Haven Project Inc ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Eastern Bank FoundationMA51.2× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Boston Bullpen Project Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Boston Bullpen Project Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Boston Area Rape Crisis Center Inc: 82% of income from government
  • Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans: 66% of income from government
  • Habitat Plus Inc: 50% of income from government
  • St Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc: 40% of income from government
  • The Home for Little Wanderers Inc: 38% of income from government
  • La Colaborativa Inc: 34% of income from government
  • Louis D Brown Peace Institute Corp: 32% of income from government
  • Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc: 32% of income from government
  • Fenway Community Health Center Inc: 27% of income from government
  • More Than Words Inc: 24% of income from government
  • The Fish Family Foundation: 22% of income from government
  • Fathers Uplift Incorporated: 22% of income from government
  • HomeStart Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Heading Home Inc: 17% of income from government
  • New England Innocence Project: 12% of income from government
  • Housing Families Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Project Citizenship Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Boston Community Pediatrics Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation: 9% of income from government
  • Women's Lunch Place Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Bread of Life Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Jeremiah's Inn Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Red Sox Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Breaktime United Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Baseball Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Beacon Academy Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Women's Money Matters Inc: 1% of income from government
  • One Family Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Epiphany School Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 80 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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